wolai-appimage

MEDIUM

maintainer witt.9099 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from cdn.wostatic.cn, which appears to be wolai's own CDN (wostatic.cn is the static asset domain for wolai.com, a Chinese productivity/notes app). This is plausibly the official distribution host rather than a random third-party. However, it is not the primary domain (wolai.com), there is no GPG signature verification, and the binary is executed during build (--appimage-extract). The sha256sums provide some integrity protection, but if the CDN host is not under the project's control or is compromised, a malicious binary could be delivered. This is a standard AppImage packaging pattern for AUR, but the unofficial-looking CDN domain and lack of signature verification keep this at medium rather than clean.

Triggered rules

Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:16 source_aarch64=("${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-aarch64.AppImage::https://cdn.wostatic.cn/dist/installers/${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-arm64.AppImage")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from cdn.wostatic.cn, which appears to be wolai's own CDN (wostatic.cn is the static asset domain for wolai.com, a Chinese productivity/notes app). This is plausibly the official distribution host rather than a random third-party. However, it is not the primary domain (wolai.com), there is no GPG signature verification, and the binary is executed during build (--appimage-extract). The sha256sums provide some integrity protection, but if the CDN host is not under the project's control or is compromised, a malicious binary could be delivered. This is a standard AppImage packaging pattern for AUR, but the unofficial-looking CDN domain and lack of signature verification keep this at medium rather than clean.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: zxp19821005 <zxp19821005 at 163 dot com>
    
      2# Contributor: witt <1989161762 at qq dot com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname="wolai-appimage"
    
      5pkgver=1.2.10
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="wolai是一种新形态的文档/笔记/信息系统,它与你过去使用的所有传统文档、在线文档都有很多不同,学会使用wolai就等于拥有了一个强大的个人与团队生产力工具。"
    
      8arch=("aarch64" "armv7h" "x86_64")
    
      9url="https://www.wolai.com"
    
      10license=('freeware')
    
      11depends=('hicolor-icon-theme' 'zlib' 'glibc')
    
      12options=(!strip)
    
      13provides=("${pkgname%-appimage}")
    
      14conflicts=("${pkgname%-appimage}" "${pkgname%-appimage}-bin")
    
      15_install_path="/opt/wolai"
    
      16source_aarch64=("${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-aarch64.AppImage::https://cdn.wostatic.cn/dist/installers/${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-arm64.AppImage")
    
      17source_armv7h=("${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-armv7h.AppImage::https://cdn.wostatic.cn/dist/installers/${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-arm64.AppImage")
    
      18source_x86_64=("${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage::https://cdn.wostatic.cn/dist/installers/${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      19source=("LICENSE::${url}/${pkgname%-appimage}/q5eyV15yEQPxBhjnFXyWtL")
    
      20sha256sums=('b69ed040a2fc03e49beaf3650aad3bd28362f11005ff4296054d44ee7d50b647')
    
      21sha256sums_aarch64=('c89b008b71dbceaf8fb5d475ad5fba57b82619dc536317160eab3e42baed64ab')
    
      22sha256sums_armv7h=('c89b008b71dbceaf8fb5d475ad5fba57b82619dc536317160eab3e42baed64ab')
    
      23sha256sums_x86_64=('5577a38b800ff637284de4cb1e767a4f8d26256d008166516152c6bc1b231334')
    
      24prepare() {
    
      25    chmod a+x "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage"
    
      26    "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage" --appimage-extract > /dev/null
    
      27    sed "s|AppRun|${_install_path}/${pkgname%-appimage}.AppImage|g" -i "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/${pkgname%-appimage}.desktop"
    
      28}
    
      29package() {
    
      30    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-appimage}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/${_install_path}/${pkgname%-appimage}.AppImage"
    
      31    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/${pkgname%-appimage}.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      32    for _icons in 16x16 32x32 48x48 64x64 128x128 256x256 512x512 1024x1024;do
    
      33    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${_icons}/apps/${pkgname%-appimage}.png" \
    
      34        -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${_icons}/apps"
    
      35    done
    
      36    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      37}
    
      38

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2